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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«'i S. No 110., Feb. 6. '58. 



Dr. John Everard (2"* S, iv. 366. ; v. 49.) — 

 Dr. Everard deserves attention as an English 

 Mystic and Christian Platonist; he is especially 

 noticeable as having produced the only English 

 version of the celebrated works ascribed to Her- 

 mes Trismegistus. I possess a copy of the second 

 edition of this rare little book, and transcribe the 

 title : — 



" Hermes MKRcuniusTKisMEGisTus, His Divtne Py- 

 MANDER. In Seventeen Books. Together with his Se- 

 cond Book, called Ascr.EPius; containing fifteen chapters, 

 with a Commentary. Translated out of the Origi- 

 nal into English ; by that learned Divine Dr. Everard. 

 Londim, Printed by J. S. for Thomas Brewster at the 

 Three Bibles in Paul's Churchyard near the West End. 

 1657. 24mo." 



The Commentary is, I think, translated and ex- 

 tracted from Rosseli's folio. The First edition of 

 this book was publislied in 1650. It is better 

 printed than the second edition, but has not the 

 Asclepius. The Preface to my copy is signed J. F. 



I find in a catalogue before me two editions of 

 Dr. E.'s Gospel Treasury Opened, one dated 1653, 

 the other 1659. This is but a scanty scrap of 

 information for your correspondent C. D. H. I 

 trust that some one within reach of books will 

 give us some personal details about Dr. Everard. 



ElBIONNACH, 



"Ztane" (2"'' S. v. 87.) — Charles Nodier, Die- 

 tionnaire Vniversel de la Langue Frangaise, Paris, 

 1832 (vol. ii. p. 24.), has '■'■ Liane, s. fern , t. de 

 bot. ; genre de plantes sarmenteuses, propres "k 

 emballer :" and, according as applied, probably 

 may mean, Anglice — radicle, or fibril, or tendril, 

 particularly of the vine. Delta. 



I forget the title of an Edinburgh printed dic- 

 tionary (12mo. 1823) — the author of which claims 

 the introduction of the word, and defines it "a sort 

 of Bindweed, a plaift." In Dictionnaire Classique, 

 2nd ed, Paris, 1829 (known as de Rivarol's) we 

 find " Liane, s. f. nom generique des plantes sar- 

 menteuses d'Amerique." Spiers, 8vo. 1850, gives 

 " Liane, liane ; liane a glacer I'eau, wild vine." 



K. Webb. 



Bruges Monumental Inscriptions (2""* S. v. 68.) 

 — Under the above heading, C. C. B. has noticed 

 his having discovered a tombstone at Bruges to 

 the memory of Mrs. More, descended from Sir 

 Thomas More in the eighth degree of consangui- 

 nity. A few particulars of that lady may be read 

 with interest. Mrs. ^lai'y Augustina More was 

 sister of Father Thomas More, the Provincial of 

 the Augustinians, and Superior of the Convent of 

 Canonesses of St. Augustin, at Bruges ; of which 

 Mrs. More was Prioress. In 1794, she embarked 

 with her community, on the approach of the 

 French, and arrived in London on July 12. They 

 were welcomed and settled at Hengrave Hall, in 

 Suffolk ; and continued there till the peace of 

 Amiens, when Mrs. More returned with these 



nuns to their old convent at Bruges. It is ob- 

 served of this lady by the Rev. B. Payment, in 

 his Piety Exemplified (vol. ii.), that, '' like her 

 great ancestor, she possessed a mind superior to 

 every trial and difficulty." She closed a long and 

 meritorious life on March 23, 1807, in the seventy- 

 fifth year of her age, at her convent at Bruges, 

 having been the last lineal descendant of the 

 Chancellor Sir Thomas More. F. C. H. 



Turkish Titles of Pasha and Bashd (2""^ S. v. 

 68.) — The Turkish language is a compound' of 

 Tartar, Persian, and Arabic. The Turk has 

 adopted the Arabic alphabet, which having no 

 letter p, he has used the Arabic * (Ii) to represent 

 p by adding two dots, j. What the Persian and 



Turk call pasha, the Arab calls hasha. In Frei- 

 tag's Lexicon, bashd is rendered egregia ac bona 

 indole fuit, from which it appears that the 

 Arabs have borrowed the word from the Persian. 

 Pasha is considered by D'Herbelot (Bibliolheque 

 Orientale) as a corruption of padishah, from pad, 

 guardian, and shah, king in Persian. Padishah 

 is the highest sovereign title. Pasha is applied to 

 the great officers of state ; thus the high admiral 

 is styled capudan pasha. T. J. Buckton. 



Brus (plerumque Braose) Family (2"^ S. v. 77.) 

 — This name has an almost infinite orthography, 

 and, besides the above, it is sometimes Brutz, 

 Brouce, Brsehus, Breose, Brewis, &c. The family 

 is of great antiquity, and appears on the roll of 

 Battel Abbey ; and the earliest pedigree I believe 

 will be found in Horsfield's Hist, of Sussex, 2 vols. 

 4to. (vol. ii. p. 186.), with the castle and barony 

 of Bramber line of descent. William de Braose 

 had a grant of thirty-eight manors in Sussex from 

 William the Conqueror, and the arms there given 

 diflfer from later coats of the same family ; they 

 are, — Az. crusule, or, a lion rampant, crowned of 

 the last. And those which are figured in Lee's 

 Tetbury (p. 62.) are very dissimilar. (See also 

 Collection of Coats of Armour of Gloucestershire, 

 by Sir George Nayler, Lond., 1792, 4to., vol. i. 

 pi. 8., Breose.) Perhaps some reader of " N. & 

 Q." may explain this apparent incongruity. Mr. 

 Lee, in his work, has given a very long account 

 of the Braose family, beginning with the twelfth 

 century ; when the manor of Tetbury was given 

 to AVm. de Braose by Henry I., and it was the 

 place of sepulture of several of the family. There 

 was in the old church at Tetbury an altar monu- 

 ment of the Braose family, probably five or six 

 centuries old, which was so much dilapidated and 

 ruinous that. In building the present church, It 

 was judged advisable to remove it altogether. 

 There is still, however, remaining a large sculp- 

 tured figure In stone of one of the Braose family 

 cross-legged, in a coat of mail armour, who had 

 been at the Crusades. Delta. 



